BeakerX interactive tables no longer being used by default in JupyterLab

[dhendry]

• After a recent update, beakerx interactive tables no longer seem to be used by default in JupyterLab
• Moreover, the following code from the example notebook: https://github.com/twosigma/beakerx/blob/master/doc/python/TableAPI.ipynb no longer works:

import pandas as pd
from beakerx import *
beakerx.pandas_display_table()

and fails with

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-242a38fe0d48> in <module>
      1 import pandas as pd
      2 from beakerx import *
----> 3 beakerx.pandas_display_table()

NameError: name 'beakerx' is not defined

After looking at the commits, it seems like 2ec1122 is the culprit, and after calling the following, things work as expected:

import pandas as pd
from beakerx import *
runtime.BeakerX.pandas_display_table()

Not sure where the bug is here, not having the widget loaded by default or documentation being out of date.

For reference:

jupyter labextension list
JupyterLab v0.35.3
Known labextensions:
   app dir: XXXXXX
        @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager v0.38.1  enabled  OK
        beakerx-jupyterlab v1.2.0  enabled  OK

[jaroslawmalekcodete]

Hi
because of #7766 we decided to move beakerx to beakerx.object so you need to import beakerx as follows

from beakerx.object import beakerx

for sure we will have to update the documentation

[LeeTZ]

Thanks for the report, doc is updated and it should work well.